I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.
The sweeter sound of woman's praise.
He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes.
Finesse is the best adaptation of means to circumstances.
It is, I believe, no exaggeration to say that all the historical information which has been collected in the Sanskrit language is less valuable than what may be found in the paltry abridgements used at preparatory schools in England.
From the poetry of Lord Byron they drew a system of ethics compounded of misanthropy and voluptuousness,-a system in which the two great commandments were to hate your neighbour and to love your neighbour's wife.